This exercise resonates beautifully with the
Yellow Cosmic Seed energy

Notes

I discovered Bartholomew through the Nirvikalpa
Site in December 2004. I had put a Bartholomew book on my Christmas
list so that I could take it with me to Mexico when I went in January
but, alas, the small publisher takes approximately 2 months to ship
- so I didn't have the book with me in Mexico. Or so I thought!

In the small fishing village there was one small bookstore
with not very many shelves of second hand books in English. You have
already guessed it, right? Yes! There was my Bartholomew book! I snatched
it up, knowing that I was meant to have it on this life-changing
trip.

The book was, Reflections
of an Elder Brother, and it is filled with soul-expanding exercises,
like the one below. I recommend it to anyone that is seeking positive
change in their life. Just reading Bartholomew makes you feel good,
vital, human and spirit intertwined...in love with the experience
of being alive in all it's myriad of experiences...

I rediscovered the exercise that I call the "Egg
of Potential" a couple of weeks ago when I took my good friend
through it. This exercise is the perfect thing to do now that we're
in the Yellow Cosmic
Seed year - as you are literally putting your heart's desire into
the Egg/Seed in order that it may grow and blossom.

I suggest that you do not read through the whole exercise
- but that you read Part One: do the exercise...then read Part Two:
do the exercise and so on.

If there are two or more of you one of you can take the
other(s) through the exercise, slowly.

I have made some comments below, in italics.

Enjoy this experience and remember...you
are
Pure Conscious Awareness!

Please take out paper and pencil. We will begin with an exercise to illustrate
creating through the outbreath. On a large piece of paper, draw a circular
shape that touches all four sides. This will create a space that appears
either as a circle or an egg-shape.

The challenge is to dare and fill that shape with things that will make
you happy. Again and again you define your lives, not in positive terms
about who you do want to be, but in negative terms of who you do not want
to be. As long as this is your orientation, you will be fighting the natural
flow of the universe. The universe wants to help you create those
things that give you happiness. The universe moves toward joy
and light and creative abundance. You see this in the incredible abundance
of nature. It creates endless delights out of itself. The same is possible
for you. So begin by deciding what abundance you really want, and what
creative delights you really want to experience. Then list those delights
carefully in the circle on your paper. Be as specific as you can because
you are beginning to create a new sense of who you are.

(Remember not to limit your heart's desire in any way
whatsoever! The sky is the limit. It is interesting, also, to notice what
you leave out, or forget - it is very telling! Expand to include all that
you are...all that you desire to be, experience, do, have, feel in your
life.)

Pause. Exercise continues.

Part Two

Holding these creative hopes in mind, we are now going to
influence the future.

Imagine it's your last day on earth and you are quietly
dying. Picture yourself in a relaxed position on a comfortable seat next
to a flowing river. Take as long as you need to really feel and see this
clearly...

When you feel some degree of reality about this image, ask
yourself what specific energies you want to be filled with when you leave
this realm of existence. Don't just limit it to those things of the so-called
spirit. Address the fact you have a physical body. What condition do you
want it to be in? You have a mind. What thoughts do you want present?
You have emotions. What emotions do you want to feel? What do you want
your inner self to be like? Address the totality of your being. If someone
were to walk up to you as you were dying, what would you want them to
see and feel? What would you want them to experience as they sit quietly
with you? When this scenario has been deeply felt, write down those things
you found you wished to be at the end of your life. Place these in the
sphere on your paper.

(If you are taking someone else through this exercise make sure you
pause after each question. And if you are doing this for yourself, some
memorization will come in handy! Questions to ask yourself: 1. How do
I feel physically? How do I want to feel physically? 2. How do I feel
mentally? How do I want to feel mentally? 3. How do I feel emotionally?
How do I want to feel emotionally. 4. What does my inner self feel like?
5. A beloved walks up and sits by me...how do I want them to feel, what
do I want them to see? What do they experience?)

Pause. Exercise continues.

Part Three

So far in this vision you have been seated. Now stand up
and begin a walk. Where you walk is up to you. It can be beside the river,
or upon a mountain, along the beach, in a meadow, through a shopping mall,
or wherever your particular idea of walking at this ending time would
be.

As you are walking, look at what you pass and record everything
you experience, as you notice now one thing, then another. What is your
response to all that you see? What do you, now filled with your chosen
energies, feel as you move from flower to tree to bush?

Describe these energies fully on your paper.

Pause. Exercise continues.

Part Four

Now that you have experienced the effect you have on your
world, let us experience how your world would respond to you.

You go by a bush, stop a moment. How does the bush respond?
The tree? The flower? The animals? The stop sign on the comer? What do
these things see in you?

As you move along, get a feeling for how those things in your world would
perceive you as you walk through them. How would your world respond if
you were filled with this kind of intense, aware presence? Please take
in everything. If you happen to be by a stream, include the fish and rocks.
Make this real. Envision the impact you would have on the environment
if you were simply walking about in this new, expanded state of Wholeness.

(Were you amazed by the feelings you had during this exercise? I
know that my friends and I were!)

Bartholomew continues:

As you begin to create the vision of how this action of outbreath would
affect your world, you also create the chance of really having it manifest.
That which you dwell upon becomes real. The more you remember what you
want to experience and give to the world, the more you will experience
those energies. Please understand, you are afraid of creating your
own life or death because you are afraid of creating against God.
But, if you really are a son or daughter of God, it is time for you to
claim the fullness of what that means. The Divine does not want
the worst for you or even the mediocre. It wants the best.

As you imagine yourself experiencing all the highest attributes you can
imagine, you are fulfilling God's will for you. Peace. Wisdom. Strength.
Power. Limitlessness. Love. Gratitude. This is a beginning. What you have
written down is the beginning of what you can do, and what you can have
in your life, if you start being courageous and stop being afraid of creation.
The view of yourself you have placed within the egg-shaped space is the
possible you. It isn't by chance you created the particular image you
see there. You have the total potential to be that now, not in the future,
but right now! If you can imagine it, you can become it.
It is already you, in there, in that egg, waiting to be born.
How do you make it manifest? Concentrate on it. Experience what those
energies feel like. How many times have we said energy follows
thought? What you turn your awareness to becomes manifest. The job is
simply to make it more and more real.

The "trick" of creation on the physical plane is simple. 'Above'
this plane is another world we could call the world of the geometric perfection.
When you imagine, you are activating this geometric world with your mind
and will. When you have put enough power into your vision by concentrating
on it, it projects "downward" from the geometric world into
this one. The world of geometric perfection does not have moral judgement.
It is a power source. Just as you can use electricity to either illuminate
a lamp or to execute someone, so does this power have nothing to say about
what is created from it. I tis just there to be used. It supplies you
with abundant power to be used as you 'will.'

So the view of yourself you created today is now somewhere in that geometric
world, taking form to the extent that you empower it. The more you return
your awareness to it, the more you activate the principle of that plane
of existence. You do not need to know how it is going to manifest
in your lives, my friends. If you start to worry about the 'how' you are
lost because you will once again be caught up in the limitations of earth
plane consciousness. Every time you have a thought, it activates
a pattern somewhere. So choose what you want to activate!

From Tracey: I have found that when I'm not feeling
at peace all I need to do is recall my place by the river and all the
feelings of gratitude and love come flooding back to me...and when I open
my eyes the world seems sparkly and new - as though it has a reaction
to my good energy and I react to it's beauty (the very vitality of the
physical world appears beautiful - even if something appears 'ugly').
Sooo....use the place that you visited and the feelings you were flooded
with to center you into what's important so you can see the world and
yourself with fresh eyes.

Individuals with planets in Leo, Aquarius, Taurus and
Scorpio are urged to do this exercise and find this place of peace, love
and gratitude because, since Saturn moved into Leo (end of July) and Mars
is in Taurus (until Feb 2006), the stern Teacher, Saturn, may be challenging
you more lately...and peace could come in handy! Remember, though, that
you signed up for Saturn and that his energy is showing you turning your
focus towards issues that you need to learn. Life Lessons. With Saturn
energy you can master these things that may perhaps give you fear, make
you feel restricted, feel challenged by....

Remember that Expansion (Jupiter's energy) can hold
anything and everything...and Saturn's challenges become very small when
your consciousness is expanded. You can hold it all!